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The 100 hour work week: believe it or not?

Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:14 PM by steven_sinofsky
So how much and how hard do you have to work at Microsoft to be successful? I was asked this question by a graduating student who has an offer from Microsoft to be a software design engineer. Actually the question was "do I have to work 100 hours a week Read More...
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Release timing and Office products -- how fast is fast enough?

Posted Thursday, November 03, 2005 4:07 PM by steven_sinofsky
I've been asked quite a bit by people interviewing at Microsoft about "software release". This post will talk about our strategy around product releases for Office products, since we have been pretty consistent over the years and this represents a balance Read More...
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Bureaucracy. Threat or menace? Either, both, or neither? Or it depends!

Posted Wednesday, October 05, 2005 9:21 PM by steven_sinofsky
bu·reauc·ra·cy a. Management or administration marked by hierarchical authority among numerous offices and by fixed procedures b. The administrative structure of a large or complex organization I was able to spend the day today with students at Harvard Read More...
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What do managers do and how big should my team be?

Posted Saturday, September 24, 2005 9:47 AM by steven_sinofsky
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. Butcher, in Shakespeare's King Henry VI The first thing we do, let's fire all the managers. Just about every employee at one time or another since the 1911 release of Frederick Taylor’s Principles of Read More...
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Registration time -- what courses should I take?

Posted Tuesday, August 30, 2005 11:03 AM by steven_sinofsky
As one of the interns was heading off for his final year, we talked about what courses he is taking. There’s a general question of “what computer science courses best prepare you to be a professional programmer [at a place like Microsoft]”. I admit to Read More...
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Learning as an engineer -- rising from the ashes of failed projects

Posted Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:38 PM by steven_sinofsky
Recently a senior program manager asked me for some reading suggestions and I wanted to share a book that had a big impact on how I view projects that I have worked on. The book is called " To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Read More...
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Thoughts on the first few years of a new hire at Microsoft

Posted Tuesday, July 26, 2005 3:10 PM by steven_sinofsky
I wanted to write some thoughts on career progression for new hires at Microsoft. Up front I should probably say that I am not trying to sell folks on Microsoft, but trying to tell it like it is. Folks who know me often accuse me of being too honest. Read More...
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